THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE CAMBRIDGE BOROUGH COUNCIL AND DOMAIN BOARD.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2951, 13 June 1891, Page 2

THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE CAMBRIDGE BOROUGH COUNCIL AND DOMAIN BOARD.

At the meeting of tho Cambridge Borough Council on Tuesday, the Mayor said the special committee, consisting of Councillors Hilly, Bond, Bach, Webber and himself, appointed to consider the disputed points between the Domain Board and the Council, had agreed to grade the gravelpits within the Domain, and in other respects to accept the proposals contained in the letter from the Domain Board, of May tith. He and Cr. Hally were asked to prepare a scheme that would, he thought, be satisfactory to all parties concerned, and avoid referring to the voluminous correspondence that had taken place, and would enable them to make a fresh start, with a clean sheet. Ho then presented the following report: — Since the last meeting of the Council, the committee has inspected the Domain, with special reference to Hindis-used gravelpits, and has to report as follows :—" There are two dis-used pits now over-grown, of which it is evident that tho whole of one and the greater part of the other lie within the Domain. Uu the other hand, the whole of the pit at present in use lies, so far as it has been opened, outside tho Domain, and on tho Thornton Road. Tho committee has not had the two dis-nsed pits measured, not thinking that needful, in view of the recommendations hereafter made. As there has already been considerable correspondence between the Council and tho Domain Board during the last threo or four mi.nths, and as the contemplated arrangements between the two bodies, if made, will not bo completed for some years to come, it has been thought the bettor course to embody the whole of the arrangement-;, as the committe understands and approves them, iu this report, so that it may not be necessary in tho future to refer to anything previous to it. The committeo therefore recommends as follows:—J. That tho present Thornton Road, from Victoria K/uid to Urosvouor-street, of the width of 70 feet, or there-abouts, bo, with the modification mentioned in elaiiso 2, tho permanent, roadway. '2. That rio much of tho original Thornton Hind, as far as Grosvenor - street, as has bean thrown into and is now included in and fenced into the Domain, be closed as road and given over to the Domain Board in perpetuity, except that the Northwest corner of tho Domain shall bo rounded and fenced off with an even curve from the second post from the corner in Victoria road to the second post from such corner in Thornton Koad. 3. That a straight line shall run from the .South-east corner of allotment No, r>!)4 to the junction corner of allotments No. 31!) and 300, and such line and tho Northern boundary of allotments No. 078 and u7'.l from such junction corner as afuresaid to the South-east corner of allotment No. 358, shall be the Northern boundary of Thornton Road from Gros-venor-street to such allotment No. 3oS ; and the road shall extend and comprise 70 feet in width to the South of the above men. tioned line ; and that the triangular piece of land included between Grosveuor-street, allotment No. 349 and part of the above mentioned line shall become the property of the Council. -1. The whole of the original Thornton Road Jiisfc of Grosvenor street, except so much as shall bo comprised in the new road included in clause 3, shall be closed and handed over to tho Domain Board. 5. That so much of the Southwest portion of the Domain as is now used as road be made over to tho Borough Council. G. That the Cosncil shall whenever called upon by the Domain Board grade down tho banks or edges of so much of tho disused gravel-pits as now lie within the Domain or of any further encroachment that may hereafter be made on tho original Domain property, so as to secure a regular slope or grado of 1 in (>. 7. That when the gravel taken by the Council from the present gravel pit shall not exceod 300 yards per annum on the average f>r any two successive years, then the Council will hand over such pit to tho Domain Board, aud that the Council, whilst not admitting as betwfl'ir. Itself and the Domain Board any liability whatever with respect to levelling or grading such pit at any time, will leave the question open for consideration at the time of handing over, whether it will do anything in the way of or oiler anything towards tho cost of such levelling, or grading having regard to its then financial condition, and to what it may then consider equitable and fair. That the portion of Whitakor Terrace to tho north-east of the railway property bo closed and given up to the Domain Board. '.). That the entire costs of making and completing the above arrangements, including surveying, advertising, fencing of new road, and all other matters, with the single exception of the Council's grading the dis-used pits, under Clause (i, he borne by tho Council and tho Domain Board in the respective proportions of three-fifths by tho Council and two-lifths by the Board." Tho report was unanimously adopted by the Council, and wo trust this will end this troublesome matter.